Now You Can Play Cards Against Humanity on Your Phone

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Now You Can Play Cards Against Humanity on Your Phone

Cards Against Humanity

Heres the scenario: you're at the park with a handful of friends. You've got your picnic blanket, snacks, and beer. Everyone's in a great mood. "Hey, let's play Cards Against Humanity!" someone says. It's a great idea, except you can't, because nobody lugged the game's big black box of cards to the park.

Or maybe you did bring the set of cards—bigger, blacker box and all. But then a gust of wind kicks up and sweeps everything halfway across the field. That's a bigger bummer than being shipped a literal box of crap.

Lucky for you, dear reader, these are now issues of the past. An ingenious fellow named Dawson Whitfield has built Cards Against Originality, a shameless ripoff of the mega-popular party game for horrible people packaged as a handy website/app for smartphones, tablets, and computers.

How shameless? Well, it's not original at all. Cards Against Originality isn't "inspired by" CAH or anything—it's the actual cards. All the originals, plus all five expansions. The app "is intended to fill in when you forget your physical cards," Whitfield says on the website. "This is a shameless copy of the real Cards Against Humanity. They deserve all the credit."

The app is 100 percent free. To play, just hit the "new game" button and share a link with your friends—the app handles the rest.

The bigger question: Is it legal? Actually, yes! Cards Against Humanity is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 license, which means anyone can use, remix, and share the game for free—so long as they don't sell it without permission or steal the name. The game has always been available as a free PDF download for those who want to make their own cards—the game's $25 price is purely paying for the official physical cards.

"We obviously think that the game is best played in real life with cards," Cards Against Humanity creator Max Temkin told WIRED. "If we thought it was fun to play on an app, we would have made an app ourselves. That being said, it's extremely cool to see projects like this come out of our Creative Commons license. It's why we've always shared the game in a free and open way."